Meson
meson(1) is a build system written in Python.
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Installation
Some distributions offer a meson package. More generally, meson(1) is distributed as a Python module and script.
python3 -m pip install meson #or pipx install meson
Usage
meson(1) must be called with a directory argument, and the directory must contain a meson.build file. A simple build script looks like:
project('Project Name', 'c')
src = ['helloworld.c', 'foo.c', 'bar.c']
executable('helloworld', src)Note that arguments are implicitly flattened. The executable method actually takes 1 or more arguments indicating source code files, not an array argument. Here the src array is seamlessly replaced with its members.
Generally, meson(1) is called like:
mkdir build cd build meson ..